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Friday, April 16, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Kansas Photo by FRED BERNS
SPIRIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS has become something of national attention as is exemplified here by two KU boosters, student Mike Sauder, an Emperia senior, and Bob Nelson, KU Exponent. The two young students, well-trained and pompous girls were ranked along the UCLA SOL Girls as the number one cheerleading in America. KU support has seldom been better than it was at this year's NCAA Basketball Championships in Houston where over 2,000 students were a part of the team that made the red to the Astrodome in support of the Jayhawks.
Reed Named As College Referee
Dwight T. Reed, who played on Minnesota's 1936 national championship football team and now coaches football and track at Lincoln University has been named the official referee of the Kansas Relays.
Reed is the second of three referees chosen by Bob Timmons, KU coach and meet director.
With this selection Reed has now been honored at two of the founding colleges in the country. Drake relay circuit. He refereed the college division at Drake in 1972.
Beeed was an end on Bernie Breeed in the Minnesota powerhouse that captures two of the ten football games along with the national championship. The Gophers were conference cochamps with Ohio State in 1933 and Texas in 1942.
Now in his 22nd year as head football and track coach at Lincoln in Jefferson City, Mo., Reed assumed the position of athletic director in his 1965. His track teams captured NCAA college records in 1964, 1965, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970 and 1970 runners up in 1964 and 1968.
Reed is a past member of the AAU national track and field team, and he was a member in NCAA affairs, he was a member of the college division committee from 1968-68 and is a member of the executive council.
Reed has guided his Tiger sprinters to six relay titles at the Jahyah carnival. Lincoln took the 880 relay in 1858, the 440 and 600 relay in 1864, the sprint medley in 1962 and the 440 and 880 relay in 1963.
Three Lincoe athletes have achieved individual crowns at the Kansas Relief. Dick Taylor tied Missouri's Jim Green for the high jump. Don Schroeder Williams leaped 6-74 to win the high jump in 1923, and Stanley
McDonald won back-to-back discus titles in 1966 (172-5½) and 1967 (177-11).
McDonald is one of Reed's outspoken friends. He swats his outspoken discourse title at NCAA college division meet three straight years, setting the meet record.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. UPI) — The golf term "birdy" was coined in 1899 during a tour at the Atlantic City Country Club. He was one of the golfers sank his ball in three strokes. "That was a bird of a shot," another player exclaimed, and enriched the English language.
By DEANNE WATTS
Kansan Staff Writer
The success of the Kansas Relays each year is dependent upon the quality of the planning behind it. This year about a dozen Lawrence businessmen and KU students who participated traditionally student Kansas Relays Committee in an effort to boost the quality of the Relays competition and to increase the community's interest in the event.
Committees Help Meet's Organization
This year the student section of the committee has handled the paperwork behind the ReLAYs, as well as overseeing years. The new local section of the committee has concentrated on making the ReLAY participants feel welcome. The groups volunteer their time.
Billy Eddy is chairman of the local section of the committee. "People who have always supported KU sports," KU is in a "very competitive situation" that Billy said he could not bear to hear. The group thought that it
Dodds is the first of three referees to be named for the relays. Bob Timmons, KU track coach and meet director, said referees for the college and high school divisions will be named later.
A star quarter-miler for K-State in 1978-58-59, Dodswain is in his eighth campaign as coach at his alma matter. He was an assistant four years to veteran Wildcat coach Ward Haylett and to the head job when Haylett followed the 1963 season.
Deloss Dodd, one-time Big Eight quarter-mile champion for Kansas City and coach of the Wildcats, has been named university division leader.
Dodds won the Big Eight
Outdoor 40-title win.
Ballasters Wideats to the mids
rival crown that year. His best
quarter was a 46.7 in a 1959 AAU
The 6th Jayhawk carnival has been expanded to a four-day meet on Tuesday, January 14-17. The meet will open on Wednesday with the first live game.
"The guys on the committee are members of the Chamber of Commerce for the most part," he asked, asked the Chamber to adopt us.
The Kansas State coach is presently a member of the NCAA team. The K-State Dodd guided K-State to Big Eight cross-country championships in 1985 and 1966. His Kansas Big Eight outdoor Kansas in the Big Eight outdoor
His Blue Aces have won the Wichita city title five times in the
"We recognize what a tremendous amount of work they have done and continue to do. I am confident they must pour into it," he said.
J. D. Edmiston, who neo coached some of Kansas' top pre prep tracks at Wichita College, was the division of the Kansas Relays.
Edmiston's appointment completes the officiating staff. DeLoss Dogs, track coach at Kansas State, was named the university division referee and Dwight T. Reed, football and basketball director at Lincoln University, will referee the college division.
they could get the city involved they could help expand the relays and get more good teams to participate.
Wichita East Coach High School Referee
Now in his seventh year as head coach at Easton, Edison's championships, including indoor and outdoor sweeps in 1955, 1966 and 1967. He was assistant at Nassau before moving into the top job.
DeLoss Dodds Is University Referee
Another member of the committee, Gene Burnett, said "Some of the national press coverage of the city and KU has not been the most flattering in the world. We hope that by doing so, we can get people to come to Lawrence and see how beautiful it is."
Burnett said the committee's goals were to "make it easier and more pleasant for visiting hostesses to help hostess can" and to help run an "ef-
past six years
Eddy said the addition of local people is designed to expand the function of the committee, not to take over the students' 'job.
JRun, Kyu, record-member (3.51.1) who starred at Kansas, is the most celebrated athlete to have performed for Edmiston.
Jon Callen, present Jayhawk distance runner, is another of Edmston's prizes. As a senior at East in 1969 Calien won the two-mile at the Kansas Relays in the time best for a Kansas schoolboy
Marcus Walker, Colorado hurdler who currently ranks as one of the world's best, is another athlete developed by Edminton. Walker is defending champion in the Kansas Relays hurdles. As a 16-year-old East in 1967 he was the state 18 clocking with a 13.8 clocking.
Ryun's Return Adds Spice To Already Potent Field
Edmiston earned a bachelor's degree at Wichita State and a master's at Emporia State.
Following that promising debut Ryun won the Cunningham Mile three times in record clockings, including the current mark of 1992 when he relay teams to national prep records, national freshman records, national collegiate records and a world record in the distance medley the last time he Jamie Hershberger Track in 1969.
Ryun first run in the KU car,
which is a sophomore at Wichita East. She won the prep mile in 4:21.3 and unchore the fuse to first win the race.
Jim Ryun, the world mile record-holder who has provided the Kansas Relays with some of its most stirring moments, will be joined by the Jayhawk track classic this week in the Glen Cumnin Mile.
Timmons she hopes t round up a banner field t challenge Ryun and already ha commitments from Tom Vor Ruden, former Oklahoma State football team. Hays State state who won the Cunningham Mile last year in 4:00.9
Bob Timmons, Kansas track coach and meet director, said his team was the first high school and college, assured him he will compete in the state.
Ryun's world outdoor mark for the mile is 3.12. He also holds the world figure for the 1,500 mile at 14.9 and for the half-mile at 14.9.
and the past two years the Wildeats were runnerup in the Big Eight indoor.
Ryun was voted the meet's outstanding performer a record three times in 1966, 1967 and 1969.
Kyun ended an 18-month layoff during the recent indoor campaign and in the second start of his comeback told the world
His return to the Kansas
Relays after missing last year
will be Ryan's eighth appearance
during the decade of the '60s
during the decade of the '60s
1964—Won high school mile in record 4:10. anchored Wichita East to two-mile relay link in record 754.3.
Ryum's Kansas Relays Log
1963—Won high school mile in
4:21.3; anchored Wichita East to
two-mile relay mile in 8:02.0
1966- As a Kansas freshman won Cunningham mille record in record number of 5.04 in national record of 9:50.4 in distance medley with 3.59 flat arm, anchored relay team quarter to make up 15-ward deficit.
indoor record with a 3:56.4 mile at San Diego. He is presently in Australia for a series of races.
1965– Won high school mile in record of 44.8; anchored Wichita Falls to Houston, 7:42.9 in two-mile relay with 1:47.7 anchor half that shaved 30%.
1967—Won Cunningham Mile in record 3:54.7.
1968—Won Cunningham 1,500 meters in record 3:42.8.
1969—Anchored Jayhawks to world record of 9:33.0 in distance medley with 3:57.6 mile.
"We hope through this that the Kansas relay, which are already ready for next week, will be better. Burnett said, "We want them to go home and say, 'We'd love you.'"
ficient" track meet.
KANSAN sports
Head track coach Bob Tim
State said that the similar com-
munities had not worked at a
times since the Relays' begin-
ning, but that none had funce-
Eddy said that he hoped the committee would help provide continuity in planning. The committee plans to critique its functioning after the relays, and we'll learn years we'll more learn." he said.
One subcommittee has planned a banquet for Friday, April 18. The committee chairman, said the banquet is to "make all the coaches and the press glad they came; make them happy to get participation from Lawrence residents to help welcome the coaches and to help organize."
The local volunteers have divided themselves into six subcommittees.
Tickets to the banquet are $8
This pays for two meals
Williams said, one for the purchaser and one for a coach.
booths at the Holiday Inn,
Memorial Stadium, Kansas City
Municipal Airport, and possibly
at the Kansas Union. Eddy said
the booths will be connected by a
telephone system. "All kinds of
phones," he said, "like 'Lake,
'Where can I go to my get shoes
sewed up?'"
Walter Houk, chairman of the transportation and housing subcommittee, said his group had already sent questionnaires to the group to arrive, how they will travel and where they will stay. If a competitor has not made arrangements, the group will help him. if he has, the group will check all reservations for him.
The banquet will be held at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, Carl J. Warren, 103-264-8950, the U.S. Track and Field Federation, will speak about his organization's activities and achievements, and the pompon girls would welcome the guests and Paul Gray's Gaslight Gange, would perform.
Another subcommittee is in charge of setting up information
Hokul said his subcommittee planned to greet all participants who arrive at the Kansas City airport and provide complete transportation service during the relays for "special invited guests" such as
Subcommittee has become an organization to help strengthen and get more people involved in officiating. He said the committee planned training sessions for "people who have an interest in sports" to work with kids," and hoped security officials in different areas.
The Marathon Subcommittee began working on the relay event beginning when Timmons asked him for an airplane ride to help place the 28-horse race.
The Awards Subcommittee has hased Lawrence business forbes for 13 trophies and plaques. Eddy said they had purchased 13 trophies
In addition to working for the relays, Eddy said, the group would help with any track meet in connection with Lawrence, if requested.
In the past, individuals have been given awards for the events. This year both individuals and groups will represent will be given awards.
The plaques will be given to high school and junior college winners and the trophies to the winning team. The following relays 440, 880, milet, misp-tedium, distance-medley and two mile. In addition, a trophy will be given to the university division winner of the
they will also provide each competitor with a "drink on the run" of Gator Aid, sugared tea or cool water. Burnett said.
"We'd like to stimulate interest in track and field in Lawrence," he said.
This year, Burnetts group is putting permanent markers on the course so that it can be reused. They also are in charge of maintaining the race, the group will call time at three-mile intervals, where
Eddy said that the Manpower
The student section of the Kansas Relays Committee is coached by Ed Wood, Wichita senior majoring in Spanish, and William majoring in business. Wood said the students sent Christmas cards, invitations and entry forms to prospective com- mers. They process all the paperwork and design the Relays program.
The students are selected during their freshman year and continue through their junior year.
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